Based on the Mission: Impossible series that started in 1966, which I have seen some episodes of; this is the movie that started the Mission: Impossible franchise. Mission: Impossible (1996) is a suspenseful spy action movie that shows Tom Cruise can do an action movie other than just comedies and dramas. Also, director Brian De Palma did a respectable job with this movie.
Tom Cruise does an excellent job as Ethan Hunt; I like how it focuses on the team in the beginning, then it focuses on just him because of a certain thing that happens to the team at the beginning of the movie, and he becomes a fugitive in a way where he must get his own team. Tom Cruise also does a wonderful job in the action sequences, and in the stunts.
The rest of the actors in the movie are good, and the members of Ethan's new team like Ving Rhames as Luthor are good. The action sequences are fun and cool to watch, they are also nicely shot with good cinematography like a train sequence in the third act climax. They are suspenseful especially with one well known scene involving being hung by a wire from a vent while not setting off sensors.
Mission: Impossible (1996) is an exceptionally good spy action movie that is worth watching, and fun to watch if you like these kinds of movies or if you are fans of the show it is based on. You do have to pay close attention to what the characters are saying to understand the plot and who the villain is, but that is good because it makes you use your brain to put things together on what is going on.
Tom Cruise does an excellent job as Ethan Hunt; I like how it focuses on the team in the beginning, then it focuses on just him because of a certain thing that happens to the team at the beginning of the movie, and he becomes a fugitive in a way where he must get his own team. Tom Cruise also does a wonderful job in the action sequences, and in the stunts.
The rest of the actors in the movie are good, and the members of Ethan's new team like Ving Rhames as Luthor are good. The action sequences are fun and cool to watch, they are also nicely shot with good cinematography like a train sequence in the third act climax. They are suspenseful especially with one well known scene involving being hung by a wire from a vent while not setting off sensors.
Mission: Impossible (1996) is an exceptionally good spy action movie that is worth watching, and fun to watch if you like these kinds of movies or if you are fans of the show it is based on. You do have to pay close attention to what the characters are saying to understand the plot and who the villain is, but that is good because it makes you use your brain to put things together on what is going on.